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Andreas Maus was born in Wuppertal on March 1 1964. Starting out as an author and director for stage in the mid-1980s, he directed several plays with the Kölner Ensemble between 1986 and 1993. From 1995 on, Maus worked as a feature journalist for TV, radio and print. He became a staff author for the network news program "Monitor", where he covered topics like the conflict between Russia and Chechnya, German immigration policy, the raise of Neo-Nazism and radical Islamism. In 2000, he was awarded the "Preis der Internationalen Journalistenföderation (IFJ) für Menschenrechte" for a TV feature on Chechnyan refugees; in 2013, his feature on the suicide rate among workers in the Indian clothing sweatshops won the" Marler Medienpreis Menschenrechte" bestowed by Amnesty International. Maus also covered the topic of exploitative working conditions in an investigative report for the TV program "Die Story".
Andreas Maus made his feature film debut with the documentary "Ballada" (2009), in which he portrayed people from different regions of Russia who still drive Lada cars. The film premiered at the 2009 Munich Film Festival and was released theatrically in 2011.
His second feature documentary "Der Kuaför aus der Keupstraße" (“The Barber and the Bomb”) chronicles the aftermath of a bomb attack on a street in Cologne that authorities wrongfully attributed to organized crime until it was finally revealed that the right-wing terrorist cell "Nationalsozialistischer Untergrund" (NSU) was responsible.